Monday, June 6, 2011

Minor Redemption @ Rocky Horror

After my championship performance at Wicked the week before, I decided to sign up to audition for the Rocky Horror Picture show this past Thursday Jun, 2. A brief aside, you have the opportunity as an equity member to sign up for chorus calls a week in advance. That way if you do it early enough you can guarantee you'll be seen in the first group and usually get the most time to learn the combination. The only catch is that you have to be at the audition 30 min ahead of time or else you lose your spot and have to sign up in the order in which you arrived. Of course although I signed up ahead of time, I missed my name being called from this list. So to the end of the line I went. Lucky for me there was barely anyone there, so I was still only #35.

I assumed I was in the second group. So I went to go change. If you've ever seen Rocky Horror, you know that they wear some crazy little outfit. Emphasis on little! I don't have anything to crazy, so I tried my best to look cute and then went to the holding room to wait for about 45 min until it was time to go in. The combination was something I can only describe as odd. It was all about the drama, actings, and the character you could get into.. and it was quick. There was this one really quick hand part, that no one seemed to be catching onto. I've included a clip from the movie of the song we danced to for your enjoyment:

We performed the combination six at a time, and lucky for me by the time my name was called I had pretty much figured out the one section I was struggling with. They then made a cut and I was asked to stay and sing. Hooray! My good friend who was also asked to stay and sing had this great idea that we should rent a room to warm up in for the second part of the audition. What an awesome concept! Just a quick 15min to warm up and hear yourself sing your 16 bars really helps you feel prepared. Especially this time when I was singing a song I had not yet done at an audition.
Anyways, they maybe kept a third of the girls to sing. We lined up and one at a time went in to sing. I sang this:

And that was it. I think that it went pretty well. But nerves always make you sound a little different than you do when you are not in the audition room. But honestly I have no complaints. Haven't heard from them, but don't much care as I really just needed a chance to prove my brain had not turned to much and to debut my new 60s/70s pop song!

About Me

Just a twenty something aspiring dancer trying to make it in NYC. I'm always googling to see if anyone has talked about the audition I plan on going to next and since I never find anything I figure I'll help someone else out by writing about my own experiences.